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New comment by eightysix_four in "Show HN: Hapibelly, Rotten Tomatoes for Restaurants"

eightysix_four — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:01:36 +0000

Because ~80% of iOS devices are >9 and spending development time on outdated OSs is a waste for startups.

New comment by eightysix_four in "UK votes to leave EU"

eightysix_four — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 05:46:20 +0000

Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have read of Churchill's thoughts on the matter (only his biography), he believed that Europe should be united but that the UK wasn't to be a part of it. Did I miss something?

New comment by eightysix_four in "Building a more power-efficient browser"

eightysix_four — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 22:36:06 +0000

They say they test across hardware in the article - the Surface Book is the only one they pictured because it's an MS blog and an opportunity to advertise MS hardware.

Besides, I'm pretty sure lowering the number of frames in an animation (among the other fixes/features they mention) is going to pretty much universally lower power requirements.

New comment by eightysix_four in "How Dirty Is Your Air?"

eightysix_four — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 04:30:06 +0000

Fresh air systems are what you are looking for. They purify and bring in outside air (be warned, they lower HVAC efficiency), a lot of them with a high enough CFM to pressurize your house to, exhausting all of the air inside outward so that the leaky seals aren't an issue.

New comment by eightysix_four in "MitM Attack against KeePass 2’s Update Check"

eightysix_four — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 21:09:25 +0000

> I'm sure it's possible to serve adverts on a HTTPS page

Yes, you can, but you lose a tremendous amount of ad revenue and a number of ad providers still don't support HTTPS.

New comment by eightysix_four in "Did the Clinton Email Server Have an Internet-Based Printer?"

eightysix_four — Fri, 27 May 2016 00:05:07 +0000

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/nsa-re...

New comment by eightysix_four in "Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round"

eightysix_four — Thu, 26 May 2016 19:44:28 +0000

I deal with the three "major" networks like so:

Facebook - Accomplishments/events I want shared out to a broad network. Highly "filtered" view of my life (and my friend's lives).

Twitter - Less content but less filter, more off the cuff thoughts or broadcasting something I find interesting to a broad network of followers.

Snapchat - High content, no filter. Snapchat photos can be "bad", things in them can be mildly inappropriate, and the broadcast distance is relatively small.

If you don't personally see the value of a low/no filter network with your friends, then it probably isn't for you.

New comment by eightysix_four in "House tells NASA to start planning two Europa missions"

eightysix_four — Sat, 21 May 2016 09:49:50 +0000

The are two different models for judging someone's actions. Intent and outcome. OP is judging that his intent is bad even if the outcome is good - sometimes that is important to remember.

New comment by eightysix_four in "Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end Encryption for Allo"

eightysix_four — Wed, 18 May 2016 21:45:27 +0000

Possibly - the two sites I've seen with "hands-ons" do not mention this anywhere.

New comment by eightysix_four in "Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end Encryption for Allo"

eightysix_four — Wed, 18 May 2016 21:23:10 +0000

I think this is a terminology issue - from what's been said elsewhere the only two differences in incognito mode is that it is E2E and doesn't show messages on your lockscreen.

It's not ephemeral messaging like Snapchat or something, although they are discussing it as a future feature.

New comment by eightysix_four in "Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end Encryption for Allo"

eightysix_four — Wed, 18 May 2016 21:00:01 +0000

Did you watch what Allo does? In its normal mode it couldn't possibly function with end-to-end encryption. They also have encryption to and from the server in the middle when you aren't in that mode.